Collings MF5 F-Style Mandolin

The Collings MF5 is Collings' fully appointed F-model with a carved seasoned Red spruce top and premium maple back and sides. With its superb tone, elegant stylings and unmatched playability, the MF5 is sure to please the most discerning eyes and ears.

Standard Features Include:

Select Adirondack spruce top
Premium figured maple back, sides and neck
Parallel tone bar bracing
F-soundholes
Grained ivoroid top/back/neck & peghead binding
Black/white purflings
Full high-gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish
Bound Florentine-style headstock
13 Degree headstock angle
Ebony peghead overlay w/Collings logo and flourish inlay
Ebony fingerboard
Mortise and tenon neck joint
22-frets, neck joins the body at the 15th fret
V shaped neck profile with 1 9/16" string spacing
5 1/2"-11 5/8" Compound fingerboard radius
1 1/8" Bone nut
13 7/8" Scale length
Medium 18% nickel-silver fretwire
Mother of pearl dot fingerboard inlays
Fully adjustable truss rod
Custom adjustable floating ebony bridge
Collings original one-piece nickel or gold tailpiece
Nickel or gold tuners with black or pearl buttons
Recommended string gauge - D'Addario J-74 (.011"-.040")
Collings deluxe hardshell case by TKL